General privacy notice

School transport

We will use the information gathered on this form to process your application for school transport and to ensure the appropriate arrangements are made for your child, or answer your enquiry about safe walking routes to secondary schools. For school transport applications, we will also ask you to update this information annually and to tell us when there are changes to your details.

Information sharing

We will share your information with other South Lanarkshire schools, our roads department, external bodies, such as Strathclyde Passenger Transport (SPT) who arrange transport contracts on our behalf, and organisations who provide services for the council.

Your rights

You have the right to ask us to:

tell you that we are using personal information about you, tell you what that information is and who we have shared it with. You can also ask us for a copy of the information we have about you. This is called the right of access.
correct any wrong or misleading personal information that we have about you. This is called the right to rectification.
stop using any or all of your personal information. This is called the right to object.
delete or destroy your personal information under certain circumstances. This is called the right to erasure.
stop using your personal information until we can correct your personal information, give you our reasons for using your personal information or stop us deleting your personal data if you need it in connection with any legal claims. This is called the right of restriction.
pass your personal information to someone else under certain circumstances. This is called the right to data portability.

For more information on how we use and handle your information and rights and how to exercise them or how to make a complaint you can ask for a copy of the council’s explanation from our Data Protection officer by emailing dp@southlanarkshire.gov.uk or see our general privacy notice.